Condemned ... Brazillian Marco Moreira learns that his execution is pending. He is one of six people to be executed at midnight. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied

Sukumaran’s plea for clemency from the President was rejected on December 30. Chan’s plea has yet to be answered and there is no indication when it will occur.

Sukumaran and Chan’s Australian lawyer, Julian McMahon, said yesterday this weekend’s executions were chilling.

“It seemed impossible to be true that they would take out these people on the weekend and just shoot them. That was my first reaction,” Mr McMahon said.

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Cindy Wockner speaks exclusively to the mother and family of death row
inmate Myuran Sukumaran about the rejection of his clemency plea by
the Indonesian President. Produced by Josh Wall

January 10th 2015

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“And if that seemed impossible, it also seemed impossible that the two clients whose stories I know so well, that there could be the possibility of such an unjust execution.”

Mr McMahon said he had confidence Tony Abbott or foreign minister Julie Bishop would fight to save the lives of the two young Australians. However, the Prime Minister said earlier this month that while he would make “the strongest possible diplomatic representations” his government was not going to jeapordise relations with Indonesia.

Awaiting his letter ... Australian Andrew Chan, who is in Kerobokan prison.Source:News Limited

Mr McMahon said the situation was traumatic for Sukumaran and Chan and their families, who are haunted by nightmares of being shot in the heart by the firing squad in the middle of the night in a remote place.

A lawyer for Brazilian man Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira yesterday described the moment his client learned he would die this weekend in the country’s first executions for more than a year.

The executions are scheduled for midnight tonight, but traditionally they take place shortly after the hour. Five men, including Moerira, will face five firing squads of 12 police from the paramilitary police wing called Brimob.

The only woman in the group, Indonesian national Rani Andriani, will be executed alone in a different place.

Yesterday Moreira’s lawyer, Utomo Karim, told News Corp Australia of his shock at being told, when he arrived at Nusa Kambangan jail for a routine visit with him, that his client was to be shot dead in days.

He said when Moerira was being moved from jail to another and into isolation, he begged his captors to shoot him there and then.

“I am very shocked as we come to Cilacap to only visit him. But we were suddenly informed that Marco will be executed,” Mr Karim said.

“When Marco was moved from Pasir Putih (jail) to an isolation cell in Besi prison, he felt shocked as he thought that he will be executed on that night.

“He was struggling and said “No, if I die, let me die here.”

He was then told by a prosecutor, in Indonesian: “Your clemency has been rejected by the President. There has been an instruction that the execution must be done. We, as the prosecutor, have to tell you three days before the execution day.”

Mr Karim said that Marco responded by saying: “Will the death penalty make narcotics disappear from Indonesia?”

The Prosecutor then said: “Whoever commits narcotic crime, we will sentence to death”